Improved brush-handle attachment



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ROBERT WYATT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 101,400, dated March 29, 1870; antedatcd Mtl/rch 19, 1870.

IMPROVED BRUSH-HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT WYATT, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BrushHandle Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings making a portion of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a side view of a brush made according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a detached side View of a portion of the same taken at right angles to g. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention relates to that class of brush-handle attachments designed to enable the brush to be secured at any desired angle to the staff or handle, according to the purpose for or position in which the brushv is to be used.-

- The invention consist in the combination with a brush-head hinged to the staff` of an arc or sector, and a suitable holding-pin or device, in such amanner as to effeotually secure the result mentioned.

The invention further consists in the combination of an elastic band with theaforesaid holding-pin, whereby the displacement of the pin and consequent loosening of the brush are eii'ectually prevented.

To enable others to understand the nature and con; struction of my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings. v

A represents the sta' or handle to which the brushhead Bis attached by an ordinary hinge or butt, is represented at c the bristles of the said brush beingshown at b.

Secured to the outer side of the head B is an arc or sector, O, perforated with any suitable number of holes, a', and which pass through a suitable slot in4 the inner end portion of the staff A. This sector C may be either a quarter circle, as shown in fig. 1, or may be an entire half circle when preferred.

A holding-pin, c, is passed through a suitable transverse hole provided in the sta A, and through one of the holes a in the sector O, thus holding the head B, or, in other words, the brush, in a fixed position with reference to the staff A, the angle of the head B with reference to the stall' being altered to any required degree by simply changing the pin o from one holei a to another, the brush being by this means readily adapted 'to use for the different purposes for which this class of implements is ordinarilyemployed.

In order to prevent the casual detachment of the holding-pin c, the said pin is formed with an annular or perforated head.

A strip or band f of India rubber or 'equivalent material is passed through this head c', and has its two ends attached to the shaft A in such manner that the tension of the said band will under ordinary circumstances, retain the pin in its place by preventing any outward longitudiml movement thereof, while, in case it is desired to remove the pin in order to change the angle or position of the head B, as hereinbefore-set forth, the said band will yield or stretch sufficiently to readily admit of such withdrawal of the pin.

If preferred, the sector O may have ratchet-teeth formed upon it, and have a spring or catch so arranged with reference thereto as to hold the said sector in position in the same manner as when the holdingpin is employed for the same purpose.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The sector 0, and the holding-pin c, orits equivalent, in combination with the brush-head attached to the stad' by an ordinary hinge or butt, a, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. 'lhe elastic band f iu combination with the holding-pin c, which retains the sector in position, substantially as for the purpose specified.

ROBERT WYATT. \Vitnes'ses;

Trios. J oven, HENRY T. BROWN. 

